Recent story on the news (linked and copied below) talked about a "gender unicorn" graphic. Apparently, it's about gender identity and was handed out to middle school students.

The teacher is in trouble... NOT for the graphic but because they didn't "clear the graphic with the administration".

The teacher used it to explain why they use "Mixed (Mx)" rather than "Mister"...

Here's a link to the graphic:
The Gender Unicorn – Trans Student Educational Resources

News Story: Science teacher receives backlash over ‘Gender Unicorn’ handout at middle school in California
POSTED 5:08 AM, AUGUST 12, 2019, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE

California– Denair Middle School administrators and families are dealing with a controversy surrounding a graphic called “The Unicorn Graphic.”

“I’ve talked to a lot of parents and a lot of grandparents and I know a lot of them have called the school and complained about it,” grandmother Tammy Stout said.

The graphic — which can be found on the website for Trans Student Educational Resources — is meant to educate people about gender identity.

It was distributed to roughly 50 students this week by a science teacher on the first day of the school year.

“It was not an assignment kids were not asked to fill it out he really was using it as a reference point,” Denair Unified School District Superintendent Terry Metzger.

Metzger said the seventh and eighth grade science teacher handed out copies of the infographic to help explain why the teacher doesn’t use the pronoun mister, instead using “Mx” pronounced mixed.

A title which doesn’t imply a gender.

Metzger said the school’s principal happened to be in the class at the time and told the teacher to stop handing out copies of The Gender Unicorn.

“Probably was not appropriate just in the way that the handout looked and it looked like it needed to be filled out and so it was just probably the wrong tool,” Metzger said.

“It is a touchy subject and of course it’s going to be when it comes to youth,” Katalina Zombrano explained.

Zombrano, the gender spectrum coordinator for the Central Valley Pride Center, said she uses The Gender Unicorn graphic for educational purposes for her job.

Adding that while she said the point is not to pry at someones sexuality, she does feel that a break down in communication is the real culprit in the case at Denair Middle School.

“There is going to be a lot of people who just don’t get it we understand that we respect that,” Zombrano said. “But, maybe a little more planning next time a little bit more finesse.”

As for the repercussions for this teacher for not clearing this graphic with administrators first, the school said any disciplinary action taken against the teacher will be kept private.

This has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen handed out in a school, and that is trumping a LOT.

What the hell are they teaching kids these days?

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anyone heard of this graphic before?

No and I wish I never see it again.

Definitely important shit here… Just had to hand it out on the first day.

WTF?

What’s wrong with saying “hey guys” when addressing people, male or female?
I have called females “dude” on many occasions.
Won’t say “mister”. Chooses Mx or Mixed?

If you seriously are offended by gender pronouns or whatever the eff they are calling it nowadays, it’s.... I don’t even know.

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Zombrano, the gender spectrum coordinator for the Central Valley Pride Center,

There's something to put on your resume.

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Originally posted by bigwagon:

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Zombrano, the gender spectrum coordinator for the Central Valley Pride Center,

There's something to put on your resume.

Want more $$$ to use in the classroom, can these sorts of worthless positions. And while you're at it, flush that ridiculous graphic down the same hole.

Local story for me.

This is an example of why my kids are home schooled. There are many reasons.

They will be homeschooled until we evacuate in 7 years, 8 months, 9 days.

It is not dumb, it is propaganda.

I can’t unsee it now.

I cannot decipher what the hell that graphic is trying to impart.

Bruce

Shaka, when the walls fell...

H&K-Guy

We are a very F'd up society.

“The teacher used it to explain why they use "Mixed (Mx)" rather than "Mister"..”

Yeah, that graphic clears it right up.
The unicorn is mixed up.

So the unicorn is a male who dresses and acts like a female and yet likes to have sex with females, additionally liking to have sex with others a bit more than having sex with males, yet is emotionally attracted to no one.

I would think that any creature with his penis in the center of his forehead has got to be in the "other" category. A lot of fun in the sack, not to mention the stable!

I saw "in California" in the subhead and stopped reading.

Indeed, I have seen it before.

The "Genderbread Person" is far more common than the unicorn, though.

Another step toward a state of mass insanity. No wonders schools have trouble recognizing crazy when they see it

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Originally posted by RNshooter:
I cannot decipher what the hell that graphic is trying to impart.

Bruce

Ah, now I see what it is: it's customized to the person's sex/gender/sexuality preferences by moving the slider on the arrow.
Apparently, he/she/xe wanted to hand the kids the only resume that matters: the one about their feelings.
Why a teacher would be wanting a group of children to know what they are sexually or emotionally attracted to is something that should be asked and answered.


Bruce

What a load of crap.
Kindergarten level artwork and, maybe at best, High School level Sex Education class material?

Dollar to a donut that teacher has gender issues themselves.

Only board approved curriculum should be allowed in the classroom. You can't have every teacher deciding for themselves what to expose your kid to...